Intersectional Knowledge and Environmental Dignity

Sor Juana's writings expose how power structures silence certain voices while privileging others—a pattern that repeats in climate discourse. Indigenous knowledge systems about sustainable land use are dismissed; women's environmental leadership is overlooked; colonized nations bear climate costs of industrialized wealth. Intersectional analysis reveals these are not separate problems but expressions of the same hierarchical thinking that confined Sor Juana to the convent. Climate justice requires centering marginalized perspectives: Indigenous communities, women farmers, Global South nations whose voices contain essential ecological wisdom. By examining how identity intersects with environmental harm, we move beyond abstract climate science toward justice frameworks that recognize whose knowledge counts and whose suffering matters. True climate responsibility means dismantling the same systems that excluded Sor Juana from full intellectual citizenship.